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Ana María Fernández García
Universidad de Oviedo
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2383-9573
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No 22 (2023), Subject: Daedalus' travels: artists and cultural exchanges, pages 1-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/quintana.22.9099
Submitted: 21-03-2023 Published: 27-06-2023
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This paper aims to explain the consumption of domestic furniture in the Argentine capital in the period known as the Belle Époque (1880-1930), a time of massive arrival of European immigrants and spectacular takeoff of the country's economy. Two trends can be identified in the acquisition of home furnishings: the French style, linked to the most privileged classes, and the British, widespread among the middle classes. In addition, since 1910, these two decorative tendencies coexisted with some Argentine thinkers' neocolonial claim on an intellectual level. Finally, it has identified the city's leading commercial houses throughout those consumption patterns, which explain the singularity of a multicultural, postcolonial society and the builder of a new identity as a nation.